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A vivid introduction to the dinosaurs of Spain

The theory and practice of Italian musical composition

Gender as a category of analysis in the 21st century

The construction and impact of a railway project in Africa

Drawing on the principles of Francesco Geminiani and four decades of experience as a baroque and classical violinist, Stanley Ritchie offers a valuable resource for anyone wishing to learn about 17th-18th-and early 19th-century violin technique and style. While much of the work focuses on the technical aspects of playing the pre-chinrest violin, these approaches are also applicable to the viola, and in many ways to the modern violin. Before the Chinrest includes illustrated sections on right- and left-hand technique, aspects of interpretation during the Baroque, Classical, and early-Romantic eras, and a section on developing proper intonation.

Race and racial thinking on the Swahili coast

The first comprehensive portrait of the Roman Renaissance world.

... a tremendously important contribution to the field of Russian history and the comparative study of empires and frontiers. There is no comparable work in any language.... The book presents an intricate and gripping narrative of a vast sweep of histories, weaving them together into a comprehensive and comprehensible chronology."e; -Valerie KivelsonFrom the time of the decline of the Mongol Golden Horde to the end of the 18th century, the Russian government expanded its influence and power throughout its southern borderlands. The process of incorporating these lands and peoples into the Russian Empire was not only a military and political struggle but also a contest between the conceptual worlds of the indigenous peoples and the Russians. Drawing on sources and archival materials in Russian and Turkic languages, Michael Khodarkovsky presents a complex picture of the encounter between the Russian authorities and native peoples. Russia's Steppe Frontier is an original and invaluable resource for understanding Russia's imperial experience.

From 1861 to 1865, the region along the Missouri-Kansas border was the scene of unbelievable death and destruction. This book presents a report of life in this merciless guerrilla war. It features bushwhackers and jayhawkers, soldiers and civilians, scouts, spies, runaway slaves, the generals and the guerrillas, who describe their ordeals.

Dealing with the decomposition of cultural myths, these essays move from the local to the global, from history to sport, from body parts to stage productions, and from race relations to global politics.

Powerful testimonies by Holocaust survivors

Peirce's most important writings on the philosophy of mathematics

Gender's critical importance to understanding Jewish history

The impact of digital surround sound on filmmaking

The life and times of a Canadian railroad giant

This subtle and powerful ethnography examines African healing and its relationship to medical science. Stacey A. Langwick investigates the practices of healers in Tanzania who confront the most intractable illnesses in the region, including AIDS and malaria. She reveals how healers generate new therapies and shape the bodies of their patients as they address devils and parasites, anti-witchcraft medicine, and child immunization. Transcending the dualisms between tradition and science, culture and nature, belief and knowledge, Langwick tells a new story about the materiality of healing and postcolonial politics. This important work bridges postcolonial theory, science, public health, and anthropology.

Reorienting our approach to fundamental questions about human existence

How do we understand the agency and significance of material forces and their interface with human bodies? What does it mean to be human in these times, with bodies that are inextricably interconnected with our physical world? Bodily Natures considers these questions by grappling with powerful and pervasive material forces and their increasingly harmful effects on the human body. Drawing on feminist theory, environmental studies, and the sciences, Stacy Alaimo focuses on trans-corporeality, or movement across bodies and nature, which has profoundly altered our sense of self. By looking at a broad range of creative and philosophical writings, Alaimo illuminates how science, politics, and culture collide, while considering the closeness of the human body to the environment.

When movie-making and gaming collide

Jewish communities of the Maghrib from ancient to modern times

Presents a portrait and intellectual history of novelist and filmmaker Ousmane Sembene. This book offers a comprehensive biography of Sembene and contributes a critical appraisal of his life and art in the context of the political and social influences on his work.

An anthology of primary documents for the study of Central Asian history. It illustrates important aspects of the social, cultural, political, and economic history of Islamic Central Asia. It covers the period from the 7th-century Arab conquests to the 19th-century Russian colonial era.

In this second volume of his history of naval power in the 20th century, H. P. Willmott follows the fortunes of the established seafaring nations of Europe along with two upstarts-the United States and Japan. Emerging from World War I in command of the seas, Great Britain saw its supremacy weakened through neglect and in the face of more committed rivals. Britain's grand Coronation Review of 1937 marked the apotheosis of a sea power slipping into decline. Meanwhile, Britain's rivals and soon-to-be enemies were embarking on significant naval building programs that would soon change the nature of war at sea in ways that neither they nor their rivals anticipated. By the end of a new world war, the United States had taken command of two oceans, having placed its industrial might behind technologies that further defined the arena of naval power above and below the waves, where stealth and the ability to strike at great distance would soon rewrite the rules of war and of peace. This splendid volume further enhances Willmott's stature as the dean of naval historians.

Discusses major ideas, figures, and schools of thought in philosophy in the African context. While drawing out critical issues in the formation of African philosophy, this book focuses on scholarship and relevant debates that have made African philosophy critical to understanding the rich and complex cultural heritage of the continent.

A book that rigorously interrogates the language of body politics in the context of neo-colonialist domination

Conversations on jazz and literature with some of America's most important artists and writers

A bold examination of questions about whiteness and race

The siren is the remarkable creature that has inspired music and its representations. This book brings together leading scholars and some talented newcomers in classics, music, media studies, literature, and cultural studies to consider the siren and her multifaceted relationships to music across human time and geography.

Describes the reception of medical ideas and practices by three generations of Russian and Tatar village women in the 20th century. This book shows how the women mediated the inherited beliefs of their families and communities, the claims of the state to control reproduction, and their personal desires for a better life.

"The History of King Richard the Third" is Thomas More's English masterpiece. This book intends to make More's work accessible to 21st-century readers. It presents More's text with modern English spelling and punctuation, and with full annotation of linguistic difficulties and the historical background.